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Vikings running back Adrian Peterson said in a statement Monday that he is “not a child abuser” and he never intended to harm his 4-year-old son when he disciplined the boy with a thin tree branch, which he referred to as a “switch.”

Roughly a third – or more – of all American adults identified themselves as obese last year, according to new data from the CDC. Obesity rates are highest among blacks, and regionally, rates are highest in the South.